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C. W. ALLISON, 



MTLLEDGEVILLE, CARROLL COUNTY. 



A Grrain and Stock Farm — Hoiv to Sandle Barley — Corn Cul- 

 ture — Fall Plowing Strongly Advised — Devons Recommended 

 — Berkshire and Poland China Hogs Crossed — Horses and 

 Dairying. 



My farm is situated on Sections Thirty and Thirty-one, 

 Township Twenty-three, in Carroll county, and comprises two 

 hundred and twenty acres. 



The farm, as a whole, is a grain and stock farm. One 

 hundred and sixty-five acres are under cultivation, the remain- 

 der being pasture, orchards, building lots and yards. About 

 forty acres are exclusively devoted to pasture, lying on both 

 sides of the Elkhorn creek. The soil is a black loam, with 

 a clay sub-soil, and is admirably adapted to the raising of 

 corn, oats, rye, barley, wheat, broom corn, buckwheat, and all 

 root crops raised in this region. 



FARM IMPLEMENTS. 



I use the Gilpin sulky plow, and the Dixon walking plow. 

 My Gilpin plow is a three-horse sixteen inch sod and stubble 

 moleboard. The walking plow is a stubble moleboard. I use 

 a three-horse drag similar to the Scotch harrow, a grain seeder, 

 McCormick reaper, self-raker, and Elward harvester. I use 



THE HARVESTER IN SECURING MY BARLEY, 

 first cutting and allowing it to fall to the ground from the 

 binder's table (having the foot-board removed). Thus it is 

 left in winrows where it soon dries, and is raked by a horse- 

 rake,' the horse walking between the winrows. This leaves it 

 in small bunches, and these bunches are put together by the 

 men in heaps, about four small bunches to each. It is allowed 

 a short time to settle, when it is hauled and stacked or stowed 

 in a mow or hay-barn. 



CORN MAY BE RAISED WITH PROFIT 



two or more years on the same land without changing, but 



